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Dashboard Quickstart

Overview​

Depending on whether you are opening Rill Developer or logging into Rill Cloud, you will either the default "Getting started" landing page or a list of all projects available to your user. For the purposes of this article, we will assume that your project has already been deployed to Rill Cloud and that you are looking to consume your dashboards in a production capacity.

After logging into Rill Cloud, you should see all projects within your organization that is available and/or has been granted permissions to your user profile. Within each project, you'll then be able to access the corresponding individual dashboards that belong to a particular Rill project.

Rill Cloud landing page

quickstart

Explore The main screen of any Rill dashboard is called the Explore page. As seen above, this is divided into three section.

  • Navigation Bar
  • Metrics panel
  • Dimensions leaderboard

  • Time Selector and Time Selector Comparison: You can change the period of analysis to different ranges of time (see red box), either by selecting from a pre-defined period (such as last week) or choosing a custom date range. Along with this, you can enable a comparison filter to compare range of dates with 1 click.

  • Filtering: Underneath the time selector, you'll also be able to find your filter bar (see orange box) where you can add filters for metrics (e.g. campaigns>1000) or for dimensions (e.g. campaign_name = Instacart).

  • Explore or Pivot: You can switch the view from explore to pivot by selecting either from the UI (see pink box)

  • Alerts, Bookmarks and Sharing: You can create an alert by selecting the bell, customizing the default view of the dashboard (see purple box) to a predefined set of metrics, dimensions, and filters by selecting the bookmark, or share the dashboard (internally by clicking the Share button or externally via Public URLs) .

Metrics Panel​

  • Measures: All metrics that are available in the underlying model \ are viewable on the left-hand side, broken out with summary numbers (e.g. eCPM) and timeseries visualizations (based on your configured timeseries column in your dashboard YAML). You can add or remove any metric from the page by simply selecting them from the dropdown above the charts (see yellow box). If you select any specific measure, you will be navigating to the Time Dimension Detail.

Dimensions Leaderboard Panel​

  • Dimensions: All dimensions available in the underlying model on the right-hand side via leaderboard / toplist charts. You can add or remove any dimension from the page by simply selecting them from the dropdown above the charts (see green boxes). You can also drill into leaderboards further (see blue box) to see all corresponding metrics for a specific dimension. Within that drilldown, you can also then sort by metric, search your dimensions, and/or export data.
Search for individual attributes

After drilling into a leaderboard (or what we sometimes refer to as a toplist chart), rather than scrolling and finding an individual attribute (especially if the list is very long), you can also quickly search for a value and select / apply it to your dashboard by using the upper-right search box.

Using the search box within a leaderboard

Don't have a Rill project or dashboard deployed yet?

If you want to get hands on and see what interacting with a Rill dashboard feels like, we have a set of demo projects already deployed on Rill Cloud and publicly available for everyone to try out. These same projects are also available on Github and can be deployed locally using Rill Developer.

For more details about additional capabilities and/or how to utilize more advanced functionality within Rill dashboards, please see the reference section.

Reference​